Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

Politics is the art of the possible.

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.

It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.